Originally Posted by sadi
The record doesn't look good. Last 4 innings 129, 77, 93 and 131. They better do well this time. They will play in India, not England and should use condition better.

I don't think so. The reason is that the rate of improvement of the other teams are more higher than the rate we improved in past two years. All teams including SL,WI, Zimb improved way better than us. So, we will face the same uphill task and might repeat the similar results. Unfortunately, that is the truth.

We could have avoided but our batsmen didn't learn anything and remained same like two years ago.

Originally Posted by shamsterWe should beat Zimbabwe... and inshallah aim for win against Sri or West Indies.. I think win against Indies more likley

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We should not use the word 'should' after the recent series against Zimbabwe
That 'should' imposes some extra pressure and to be frank, we can't handle that pressure. Just let them apply the happy-go-lucky way.

Losing to Zim was an accident. I never count on that and never think that they will beat us in CT. We could beat Australia on England's soil, does it means we will beat them in our next encounter. If you think so then you might think Zim will win against us in CT; but if you don't think so then don't think that thet'll beat us. I am hopeful about catching either of the two big fishes (WI,SL).

With the lack of practice my prediction is - we will loose badly against SL.We will come better with WI.If it's our lucky day and WI has those collapse, we might win against them.When we will face Zim, we have already played against big fishes.We should simply smash them.Of course, the reality might be different from predictions.Lets just hope that whatever reality might becomes, we will get benefitted from it.

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